[linux-mm-cc] Fwd: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] compcache: Compressed Caching

Allan Bezerra allan.bezerra at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 13:47:56 EDT 2008


Hi all,

> >  Are the scripts used to do that benchmark available? (I know
> >  XAutomation is already available in Debian)
>
> I am not much aware of testing tools they used. Maybe you can contact
other authors of this paper for details.

Just a comment, for this paper we used Nokia N800(ARM) as target.
We did not have an automated script to benchmark used. Please, take a look
on paper and let me know if you have any problem to reproduce it.

-- Allan Bezerra
INdT-Nokia-Brazil

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <gmatht at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >  >  So, I will require performance numbers to justify inclusion of
> compcache
> >  >  in mainline. We already have separate perf numbers for
> lzo(compressor) and
> >  >  tlsf(allocator) but none that shows that using compcache is good for
> >  >  perf under memory pressure.
> >
> >  Well, the my testing showing that compcache is more robust with that
> >  with no swap at all under low memory situations. This would have been
> >  enough for Ubuntu if not for the feature freeze. In any case,
> >  benchmarks would be good.
> >
> >
> >  >  If anyone is willing to take up this task, you can refer this paper:
> >  >  http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/Reprints/briglia-Reprint.pdf
> >  >
> >  >  This paper shows benchmarks of previous implementation of memory
> compression.
> >  >  It will give good idea on what to measure.
> >
> >  Are the scripts used to do that benchmark available? (I know
> >  XAutomation is already available in Debian)
> >
>
>
> I am not much aware of testing tools they used. Maybe you can contact
> other authors of this paper for details.
>
> - Nitin
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